“My grandmother said one learns English to woo a girl but when there’s heartbreak, you come back to Urdu,” shares Devyesh Tripathi, a lawyer practising at the Delhi High Court. The Urdu enthusiast ...

BEIJING: In China, an increasing number of students are interested to learn Urdu, the national language of Pakistan, said Prof Zhou Yuan on Sunday. Prof Zhou is the head of Urdu Department at the ...

Urdu may be a bit more challenging than other languages, but a growing number of Chinese students are choosing to learn it as they anticipate opportunities to be offered by Chinese companies carrying ...

After we arrived in upstate New York in the fall of 2017 as cultural exchange visitors, we kept thinking about how to introduce the people here to some aspects of Pakistani culture. We kept bouncing ...

Eager-to-learn students greeted teachers at the government-sponsored Urdu classes, which emerged as a surprise success in the city. Ludhiana residents taking notes during the government-run Urdu ...

LAHORE: “Proficiency in one’s mother tongue is important for creative expression. English-medium instruction has destroyed students’ interest in our national languages,” Pakistan National Language ...

Language is the gateway to a new world, every language that you learn let’s you explore the cultural, social and literary nuances of myriad hues. The Urdu language classes conducted by the department ...

It’s on a Tuesday evening in January, under a canopy of incandescent bulbs, that I receive my first lesson in Urdu: the difference between alcohol and mirages.I am part of a small mehfil gathered in ...